How Cute?

I had an experience with my granddaughter Mallory Thursday night that blew my mind. Her mom had to work late so I picked the girls up from daycare and took them to eat at Cici's Pizza. Everything was clicking right along, Mallory was eating away and a little guy with a spikey haircut and black T-shirt walks up to our booth and starts chattering away to Mallory. He walks over to her and puts both arms around her and gives her a hug, just like they have seen adults do I am quite sure, and then she gets out of the booth and hugs him back. I was sitting there in shock I think. I have never ever seen a little boy in the first grade walk up to a girl and start TALKING let alone hug her. I was thinking, they are way too young for this, but part of me was thinking, that is too cute. Mallory never meets a stranger but this little guy was way out-talking her. I asked him if he was in her class at school and he said, "I was last year." I really couldn't believe it then, this kid wasn't even in her class this year and he was still completely uninhibited about talking to her. I asked what his name was and Mallory said, "Pweston" (she can't say her r's), so I said, "Weston?" and he said, "NO, PRESTON." Her little sister was sitting beside me and her face was as red as a beet, she is a little shy until she gets to know you, but she was watching them like a hawk. I thought I wish a had a picture of this and about that time his mom came over with her cell phone and asked if she could take their picture and my first thought came back to me that they were both way to young to be so comfortable with the hugging and talking at such a young age, her Papaw would have had a fit probably, but he wasn't there and it was just so darned cute!